[Foundation-l] Editor Survey, 2011

[Mani Pande]

> MzMcBride wrote:

> "After having looked at the survey content, the survey software, and the
> survey format (particularly the length), I have very, very low confidence
> that anything of value will come from this (beyond lessons of what not to do
> next time)."
>    
Based upon my experience having conducted surveys and quantitative 
research for over 12 years, this is a very incorrect assessment of the 
survey. The survey answers questions that are important to the 
foundation, and will help us understand the editor community so we can 
provide them an engaging  editing environment, ensure we can increase 
their needs to increase retention and increase the diversity among 
editors. As for Lime Survey, it is a great open source tool that is able 
to meet all our needs.  Again based upon my experience, a 20 minute 
survey is standard for most surveys. A learning from our last survey was 
that our community is very engaged and I believe the length of the 
survey is the least of our problems.

> The pool of people who will click the banner is already fairly small. The
> people who will want to start a 20-minute survey is even smaller.
>    

When we did UNU-Merit which was a similar length, we got over 100,000 
complete responses so your assessment that the pool is fairly small is 
unsubstantiated.

If you have more feedback, please post it on the wiki.
Mani


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